This quote speaks about my life and allergies.
I am constantly trying to understand what the message is behind our story and what it means to me as women and mother.
As I travel along this road and slowly build up my muscle to deal with the many aspects of allergy living, I reflect.
We have learnt so much and yet we have so much more to learn.
When speaking to other mothers who are on an allergy journey I become acutely aware about the many differences, but also the many similarities.
I have been reflecting recently about the time when Saskia was diagnosed and the pain and fear I felt. How my intuition had lead me to believe that something was terribly wrong in spite of all the information I was being given around me.
The choices we made which then and even now seem limiting and undeniably hard.
I turned away from a belief that alternative therapies was more in line with my beliefs than a medical model, because my daughters life was more important than a view or an opinion I held.
In the early days, it was about the survival of my small baby, but now that she is stronger and self-sufficient the picture alters our options broaden.
Her system slowly becomes more mature and stronger, more roads are open.
I now can afford to revisit some of my previous beliefs about alternative therapies and health approaches.
My intuition can start to breath again, without the suffocating sense of undeniable responsibility for such a small human being.
I rejoice that as I slowly discover my new world and accept the miracles that I have within it. As my daughter has grown from baby to toddler and now infancy and then onwards, the strong connection of survival shifts, changes and expands.
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